An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.